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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-11-05
the atmosphere serves the same purpose

the atmosphere serves the same purpose
as glass, and the gardener gives US a
practical illustration when he covers his
plants with glass, which freely permits
the passage of the suns heat and prevents
it's radiation from the earth, thus, by
storing heat, stimulating plant life and
growth.
1t is this concentration of the heat of
the sun upon portion of the earth's sur
face and the lower air strata that origi-
mates the storm. The upper regions of
the atmosphere are cold, and the cold in
creases as distance from the earth is in
creased. Impelled by its buoyancy, a
heated and therefore light and expand
ing stratum, underlying a mass of cold
and therefore dense and heavy atmos-
phere, seeks to rise. Finding in some
favorable locality an escape through the
everything obstruction, an upward stream
or current sets in, and to this point the
adjacent surface air flows and ascends in
the upward current. When the uprush is
fairly under way the air flowing in from
all sides quickly gains velocity and a
whirling motion is established. You
may illustrate this by filling basin, hay
ing hole in the centre of the bottom,
Will opCu tiIC lolC diu S1NC VIC
water an initial agitation, and you will
find it moving around the sides of the
basin while it is passing out of the hole
in the bottom The whrl increases in
dimensions until there is great revolv-
ing movement of atmosphere. A storm
then is an immense area of circling
winds, from which it gets the appropri-
ate name Cyclone" 1t is a general in
ward atmospheric movement toward and
around central area.
Storms are fed and maintained by as
scending currents of warm, moist air on
their eastern and descending currents of
cold, drying air, to take the place of the
former, on their western side. The
lighter air and rainfall in front of a storm
induce the storm to move in that direc-
ton. This, together with the pushing
force of the increasing pressure applied
by the heavier descending currents of air
in rear of the storm, determines the
direction of the storms movement. Tenn
perature and moisture increase at places
toward and over which the front part of
the storm is moving, and decrease at
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-11-05
after as an "area of high barometer" or

latter as an "area of high barometer" or
anti-cyclone. Well-defned areas of low
barometer are the distinguishing charac-
teristics of the great storms, the hurri-
canes and typhoons of tropical regions
and the ordinary storms of the middle
ATTITUDES. They are all comprehended
under the general name cyclone.
It is upon this wonderful atmosphere
of ours that we depend for the tempera-
ture and the elements that make life pos
sible. The heat Of the sun is the chief
factor in the development and preserva-
ton of life, as it is also, by reason OF its
agency in upsetting the equilibrium OF
the atmosphere, the power Of destruc-
ton and desolation. To meet the re-
quirements of life it is essential
that the surface OF the earth and the
lower strata of the atmosphere receive
and retain the greatest amount OF heat.
This need is provided for in the ease with
which the suns heat passes through
the atmosphere, concentrating on the
earth's surface and in the lower air strata,
and the difficulty with which it is ra-
dated back by the earth. In this respect
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-11-05

ence in connection with
it may be readily seen
on the diagram. If the
storm passes by we'll north
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-11-05
A Story Teller.

Mr.. Lawrence Jerome stands alone in New
York as a story-teller and wit. Hecan liter
ally tell funny stories by the hour and the
popularity of his case is that it does not mat
equally happy. He has been known to
amuse a party of ladies, q crowd of work
men, and club of practiced wits all in one
day. As for children, they think no one I'M
derstands how to please them so well as he.
He told story at the Chamberlain dinner
the other night of dude running for Con-
lot Of 'longshoremen that he had never been
in that locality before. This incensed them
to a strange degree. "Low cality? Low
cality, is it?' said one of the angry men.
'.Fwat d'ye name by insulting dacent people
that way? If this is a low caIity, I'd like to
know where you'll find high cality. "-Ea-
ehengs. q
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-11-05
CORK.
Some Interesting Points Concerning This
Very Useful Article.

Some Interesting Points Concerning This
Very Useful Article.
The density of cork varies with its quality
and age Thin corks are usually heavier
than those of the same volume that have
grown more rapidly, and, in corks of the
same class, the density increases with the
age. M. Brisson gives 0.240 as an average
maximum, and the ordinary density of a
ten-year-old cork may be taken at OF. With
extreme lightness are associated other valua-
BILE qualities: that of being poor conductor
of heat and sound; impermeability to
liquids; imperfect combustibility, and non
liability to decay, by reason OF which 1t IS
susceptible of very numerous applications
in industry. The most important use of the
substance is for bottle-corks The bark
is kept in a damp cellar. When taken to
the shop it is cut by the first work
man into strips, the width of which
corresponds with the length of the
future cork. A second workman cuts
these strips into squares suited in size to
plunged into boiling water to make them
swell out. They are then stored in cool
place, and kept constantly moist by sprink-
ling, till they pass into the hands OF the
corkmaker. He applies them in succession,
giving them rotary motion, to the edge of
a wide-bladed knife, drawing them at the
same time slowly along its length, and, by
skillful manipulation, transforms the square
into round cork. This is the method usu-
ally practiced in France. Workmen in other
countries handle the knife in different man
ners. 1t is essential, to obtain good and
solid cork, to take care that its axis as it is
cut from the bark be parallel with the axis
of the tree on which the bark grew; but the
broad, fiat corks have to be cut perpendicu-
lar to the axis of the tree. Only the finest
corks are now made by hand. A good work
man can turn out in the method described
about 1000 corks day.-Popular Science
Monthly.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-11-05

show the usual trend of temperature
lines in relation to storms. The arrows
local wind directions) and legends have
no geographical reference, but show the
weather conditions surrounding a pro
gressive storm. The whole revolving
mass propagates itself in an easterly di-
rection, the average direction Of move
ment being northeastward.
In the southeastern portion of the
diagram we see the region in relation to
q storm where the weather is clear and
very warm, with the red sunsets and
yellow moon that indicate prolonga-
ton of fair weather. "When it is even
ing ye say it will be fair weather, for the
sky is red" In the heated southwesterly
currents that prevail southeast of the
storm, cumulus clouds are formed and
sail northward. These soon enter the
region in front of the storm,
where the higher cirrus are found,
and combining with them form the GIRO
stratus, and presently there is gloomy,
overcast sky and rain. Attending the
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-11-05

, places over which the front part of the
storm has passed. With rising tempera-
ture and increasing moisture in front of
the storm, pressure decreases and the
barometer falls; while with falling tenn
perature and drying air in rear of the
storm pressure increases and the barome-
ter rises. Moist regions attract storm.
Regions where high pressure and a
dry, hazy, smoky atmosphere prevail
counteract the tendency to storm forma-
ton and rain, and repel, defect, or at
least retard the approaching storm. The
circling winds carry the warm, vapor-
laden southerly air around the front and
across the northern end of the major axis
of storm, and bring the cold, drying,
northerly air around the rear and across
the southern end of this axis This ex-
plains why it happens that the warmest
weather of the month may occur in one
part of the country simultaneously
with the coolest weather of the
month in another part. The warm,
light, moist, southerly current in front of
storm gradually rises into the colder
strata of the atmosphere and condenses
its vapor of water into clouds and rain,
which conditions are carried into the
upper rear portion of the storm, where,
under falling temperature, the rain
turns to snow, and, under the influence
of evaporating northerly winds and ris-
ing barometer, the sky presently clears
off bright and cold. Job said, Fair
weather cometh out of the north" and
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-11-05

solomon wrote, The
north wind driveth away
rain"
Attending storms we
find the broadcast features
of weather to be as shown
in the diagram:
The lines, called "iso-
bars" returning into
themselves, inclose the cir
cling mass of atmosphere
which constitutes ''the
storm. The dotted lines,
called ''isotherms," what
ever their values may be,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-11-05

higher cirro-stratus we find watery
sun, a pale moon, and halo-forming
sky. 1.-THE moon with a circle brings
water in her beak" Halos generally oc-
cur in the extreme front of a storm area,
and are, perhaps, our first indication of
a coming change of weather The pale
moon and watery sun are indications of
the increasing dampness of this part of
the storm area.
If the sun goes pale to bed,
Twill rain tomorrow, it is said
AS the storm advances and the central
whirl comes near we have a stronger in
draught of air, the clouds become soft
and lowering and reflect the lights
of cities. Presently the air becomes
muggy and gloomy, and our decayed
teeth, old wounds, corns, neuralgia
or rheumatic pains forewarn US of
the approaching storm. Odors become
more frequent, sounds are heard
and objects seen at greater distance
and animals become restless. The
foreshadowed rain at last falls and
the line of lowest pressure passes
over us. Now, the wind shifts to
the opposite direction, the rain breaks
up in squalls or showers, temperature
falls, pressure increases and the weather
clears off bright and cold, with silvery
moon, if there be any at night, and bright
sunshine during the day.
Our relative position toward a storm
and the weather we are likely to expert
c0nD1ntinn with
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-11-05
Burning Garbage.

How to dispose of the garbage is one Of
the questions that is troubling large cities.
In Montreal the system of burning 6as been
adopted, and the Philadelphia board Of
health has sought information concerning
the success of the device. From the reply
received it appears that crematory can Be
built at cost Of "a 600 for each furnace, ex-
elusive OF the cost of the shed-covering. It
each furnace will cremate sixty to seventy
cubic yards or carloads of garbage. There
is no smell, and the crematory can be erected
within the city limits without detriment TO
public health: 1t will require two and q
half tons of the cheapest soft coal, screened,
for each twelve hours.-Exchanqs.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-11-05
HOW ARDS LETTER.
THE SHOP-GIRL PROBLEM MYSTI-
FLYING ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE.

Generally the Brightest and Best-dressed
Women of New York-Their Wages and
How They Are Spent--Thoughtlessn
and Selfishness on the Part of Employers.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-11-05
STORMS.
KNOWLEDGE OF WEATHER IN THE
PAST AND PRESENT.

What Benjamin Franklin Discovered Years
Ago Concerning the Course of the Wind
What is Known To-day-Scientific Inves-
LEGATIONS and What They Have Shown.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-25
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

In his will Jose Sevilla, who died recent
ly in Lima, Peru, left $500, 900 for the educa-
ton of poor female children-in New York
THE snow blockade ON the Canadian Pa
cific road in the Rocky Mountains would.
it was said on the 18th, stop the running of
trains for two weeks.
ACCORDING to advices of the 10Th from
st. Petersburg, Russia, thirty persons
twenty of them females) had been ar
rested for plotting to take the life of the
Gar
DISPATCHES received from Prague on
the 10Th were to the effect that an earth
quake had destroyed the village of Birk-
enberg, the inhabitants taking refuge in
Prague
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, spoke
as follows to French General on the 10th:
"Tell your compatriots that there is no
danger of war. So long as 1 live shall
use all my influence to maintain peace.
God will soon call me to Himself l do not
wish to leave my people a heritage of
blood"
Mr.. GLADSTONE said, in a speech at Lon
don on the 18th, 1t was impossible to deal
with other questions till the Irish question
was settled, and said that he was firm in
his demand that Ireland should have self
government in affairs exclusively Irish.
MANY Englishmen appeared wearing
shamrocls at the st. Patrick's Day cele-
bration in England on the 18th.
Al Guira, in ,Vuelta Abajo, Cuba, kid
mapping on wholesale scale was on the
18th being carried on, the kidnapped per-
sons being released only on the payment of
ransom.
CHOLERA was reported on the 18th to be
rapidly spreading in South America
A MEMORIAL requesting that the publica-
ton of offensive details in divorce cases oe
prohibited was Signed by over two hundred
members of the British House of Commons
on the 18th.
FATHER KELLER, of County Cork, Ire
land, connected with the anti-rent agita-
ton was arrested on the 18th.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-25
WEST AND SOuTH.

IN Cincinnati and Covington over seven
hundred architectural iron-workers struck
on the 18th. They demanded nine hours
work and the same pay they were receiv-
ing for ten hours work
GRIFFIN BROS, pressed brick manufact-
urers, of st. Cloud, MINI, made an assign
ment on the 18th with liabilities of S123, 000
WILLIAM STONE shot Henry Madison
dead at San Antonio, Tex, on the 18th be-
cause he refused him money, and then
killed two men who attempted to arrest
him.
S. G. RUTHERFORD, of Hart, was elected
Department Commander of the Michigan
G. A. r. at their session on the 18th at
Grand Rapids
NEAR Fort Buford, D. T., the Missouri
river overlooked its banks on the 18th,
flooding the Little Muddy country and
driving many settlers from their homes.
Two slight earthquake tremors were felt
at Charleston, s. c., early on the morning
of the 18th.
AT Marion, Ind, gas we'll, from which
the gas escaped with such force as to
make a thunderous sound, was struck On
the 18th.
A CYCLONE which swept Tampa, Fla,
on the 18th demolished several houses,
killed two children and seriously injured
several persons.
A BAND of Ku-klux in the Prohibition
county of Rock Castle, KY, took from her
house Eliza Fish, aged seventy years, and
began whipping her because she persisted
in selling liquor Suddenly shots were
fired and three of the Ku-klux fell dead
AT the Nebraska encampment of the G..
A. r., which closed its sessions on the 18th
at Omaha, Hon. H. c. Russell was elected
Department Commander.
NEARLY the entire business section of
Rock Hill, S. c., was wiped out by fire on
the 18th. The loss was $40, 900, with about
500, ZOO insurance.
THE State Supreme Court<at. Ottawa,
H., heard the closing arguments in the
Chicago Anarchists case on the 18th, and
took the case under advisement. If af-
tirmed, the decision would not be an
nounced before next September: if re
versed, it might be made in Nav or June.
THE St Paul and Michigan Central roads
were calling in on the 18th all annual
passes that had been issued. Last wear the
Wabash line gave out "a, 776 trip passes.
THE clothing of Miss Alice Jones, a
waitress in a restaurant at Lafayette Ind,
caught fire from stove on the 10th and
she was burned to death.
AT Abilene and other droughty portions
of Texas it was stated on the 18th meetings
to pray for rain were being held daily in
the various churches.
MUCH property was being destroyed at
Bismarck and Mandan, d. T., by high
water on the 18th, the water being four
feet deep N some of the streets.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-25
LATER.

DR.. u. L. Sewers, one of the most prom
inent physicians of Washington, in an in
terview on the 2lst said there was danger
that President Cleveland would not live
through his term unless there was change
in his mode of living.
The trial of Schwartz and Watts for the
murder of Express Messenger Nicholl was
begun at Morris, ILL.,, on the 21st.
IT was reported on the 21st that a heavy
white frost had done much damage to fruit
and early vegetables in Florida and
Georgia.
-FOUR colored persons were drowned on
the 2lst near Tallahassee, Fla, by the up
setting of boat in. which they were row.
ing on Lake Hall.
Il. T. ANTHoNY's. powder mill near Ne
gaunee, Mich, blew up on the 21st, and L.
II. Stanley and son Albert were killed.
THE issue of standard silver dollars from
the minis during the week ended on the
18th was 406, sos; during the correspond
ing period of last year, 416 $50
. ADyIeEs of the 21st say that Albert Tay-
Tor Cowie, paymasters clerk; j. Oates,
apothecary; H. H. Hesse, armorer; and
William Foster, coxwain, of the United
States training ship Saratoga, were
drowned at San Fernando by the swamp
ing of small boat
THE safe of the Richmond Hotel at Buff
falo, N, Y, was taken from the ruins on
the 21st, and diamoRds,to the value Of $50,
600 or more were found uninjured.
3. H. BAKER, a. real-estate dealer at
Minneapolis, Minn,,v disappeared on the
21st. and was said to be $lO0, 900 short in
his accounts with several companies of
Which he was president.
THE people of Fort Pierre, D. T., were
driven to the bluffs by the rising water on
the. 21st, and it was feared great damage
to the town would result. The Missouri
was rising two feet an hour. Entire destruc-
ton. threatened the town of Mandan,
where all the business houses were flooded
and the people were fleeing to save their
lives.
The Quaker meeting house at Buffalo,
Kan, was blown up by giant powder on
the 21st. A man who had been prosecuted
for gambling was charged with the crime.
5 FURTHER advices of the 2lst say that the
recent fire ON the Chautauqua On W AS
sembly grounds destroyed eighty buildings
and ruined the grand old trees on the lake
front.
A MAss-MEETING was held in New York
City on the 21st to protest against En-
glands policy toward Ireland. Charles A.
Dana made an address, and letters were
read from Roscoe Conk1ing and other
prominent men condemning coercion.
The Missouri and Ohio Legislatures adj
journed sine die on the21st
A NOTABLE gathering of ministers took
place at the noon meeting at Farwell Hall,
chicago, on the 21st, and Bishop Cheney,
Dr. Lorimer, DR.. Henson, Rev. Frank Bris-
tol, G. NJ Morton and others spoke of the
great work being carried on in the city
through the instrumentality of Evange-
lists Moody and Murphy.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-25
TIE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
FROM WASHINGTON.

D. LYNCH PRINGLE, of South Carolina,
has been appointed by the President to be
Consul General of the United States at
Constantinople.
THERE were received at Washington dur
ing the weel, ended March II, 6,355 applica-
tions for pensions and 2, 49, cases were dis
posed of during the week, leaving total
of 296, 286 cases pending.
SMALL bills to the amount of $780, 900 were
shipped from Washington to New York
and $1,000 to Chicago during the seven
days ended on the 18th. The treasury was
also issuing daily 81 and 81 silver certif-
Gates at the rate of $50, 900.
JOSEPH Roy, lately postmaster at Mer-
rillon, Wis, was on the 18th appointed by
the President chief Clerk of the Post
office Department at Washington.
THERE were 1877 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 18th, against 230 the previous seven
days.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND celebrated his
fftieth birthday on the 18th.
The copper mines of this country
produced last year 156, 373, 421 pounds, of
which 79,728,S3S pounds came from the
Lake Superior region.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-25
Two persons were killed by a boiler ex-

Two persons were killed by boiler ex-
plosion in o. II. Paessler's sawmill at Van
Vert, o., on the 18th
AT six O'Clock on the evening of the
18th Summerville, S. c., was shaken by
the heaviest earthquake shock felt there
in the last two months. 1t caused some
excitement
THE death of Mother Euphemia Miss
Caroline Blenkinson), superioress of st.
Joseph's Academy at Emmittsburg, Ind,
and head OF the Sisters of Charity in
America, occurred on the 18th at the age
Of seventy seven years.
A COMPANY has been organized by East
ern capitalists to work the recently -discov-
cred gold-fields in Arkansas.
JUDGE SEvERENs, IN accordance with
recent decision by the Federal Supreme
Court, on the 10Th released the ten Nor
mons sent from Idaho to the Detroit house
OF correction on cumulative sentences
AT Bismarck and other points on the Up
per Missouri the flood was increasing on
the Goth. Parties had been dispatched to
the relief of settlers in the surrounding
country who had been in the trees and hay
stacks for two days awaiting sGccor 1t
was feared that considerable loss of life
had occurred.
MORE assignments of business firms had,
it was announced on the 10Th, occurred in
Cincinnati in the first three months of this
year than in any corresponding period of
the city's history.
WHILE stopping for dinner at Antelope
Springs on the 10Th Major d. n Bush,
paymaster, en- route to Fort Mckinney,
was robbed of vaiise containing 1900 by
a cowboy who made his escape.
THE Democrats of the Second Texas dis
trict on the 10Th nominated w. Fl. Martin
as Senator Reagan's successor in the lower
house of Congress.
ONE man was killed and three others
fatally injured by an explosion in the
works of the United Oil Company at
Baltimore on the 10Th.
DR.. G. W. RANDALL was on the 10Th
held in $1,000 at Hastings, Neb., for an as
sault upon a young girl placed in his care.
Before he could leave the. courtroom the
victims brother shot him dead.
MRS. SARAH BAKER, living in the edge of
Green County Ind, celebrated her one
hundred and fifth birthday on the 10Th.
She is a native of Virginia.
BENTON J. HALL, of Burlington, Ia,
Democratic ex- Congressman, has been APP
pointed United States Commissioner of
Patents at Washington.
p THOUSANDS of dollars worth of property
was destroyed by prairie fire on the 10Th
in Bandera County, Tex.
AT Chicago the Republicans on the 10Th
nominated John A. Roche for mayor.
In twenty-five Illinois counties winter
wheat prospects were reported favorable
on the 10Th, and the general outlook in
Missouri and Wisconsin was promising
The situation in Kansas had improved.
Wheat in some portions of Michigan was
in bad condition,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-25
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
The state Charities.

The State Board of Charities and Reform
In its biennial report for the calendar years
1885 and 1856 to Governor Rusk says that
one of the great problems of every civil
lied State is how to deal with the crimi-
mails, the paupers, the insane and the other
defective and dependent classes. In Wis
consin these form less than one per cent.
of the population, but they cost the public
not far from million dollars annually dt-
rectly, i'll addition to the indirect cost. The
provisions in the State for the care of the
insane after the new county asylums are
completed will be as follows:
State Hospital for the Insane, capacity. so
Northern Hospital for the Insane, capacity. COG
Milwaukee County Asylum, capacity. 800. 255
Fifteen county asylums for chronic insane.
including those nearly ready, capacity. . 1,220
1Obd1 ~,Sta
There are now nine hundred chronic in
sane in the county asylums The board
held eleven meetings, all in Madison, il
1885, and eight during 1886, one OF which
was held in Milwaukee. The expen ses of
the board for 1885 were s., 7SS.S9, and for
1856 IS 31461